About Us: On 20 June 2026 at 7.30pm Kingston Choral Society presents a summer programme focusing on the natural world. featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, Elgar, Holst, Howells, Parry, Purcell, Stanford and Dowland in his 400th anniversary year. These diverse pie... moreOn 20 June 2026 at 7.30pm Kingston Choral Society presents a summer programme focusing on the natural world. featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, Elgar, Holst, Howells, Parry, Purcell, Stanford and Dowland in his 400th anniversary year. These diverse pieces share a focus on the natural world. Part one of the concert delights in all things pastoral in a series of anthems, partsongs and folk songs.
Part two introduces the ominous note of threats to nature, with Cecilia McDowall’s haunting cantata, The Ice is Listening. Inspired by accounts of seventeenth and eighteenth century frost fairs on the River Thames, this gorgeous work evokes nature’s fragile balance – a theme amplified by Raymond Yiu’s rich song cycle for soprano, The Earth and Every Common Sight, which urgently addresses the peril of climate change.
The concert will be conducted by Andrew Griffiths, with Gavin Roberts playing organ and piano and the Soprano, Donna Lennard, performing the song cycle.
KCS has been sharing the joy of choral music with audiences in and beyond the Royal Borough for over 75 years. This evening’s magnificent repertoire will inspire emotions ranging from the sombre to the sublime, with peaks of high drama and moments of meditative beauty.
KCS gratefully acknowledges the support of the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Charitable Trust. less
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